“DEADS DUE TO lockdown are 100 TIMES the deaths due to Covid AVOIDED by the lockdown”
… the unprecedented use of lockdowns, school closings and other sweeping measures
… None of those policies were successful, and many were gravely damaging
… Lockdowns in the U.S. prevented between 4,000 and 16,000 Covid deaths
… In an average year 37,000 Americans die from the flu, according to the CDC
… Before 2020, it was recognized that communities respond best to pandemics when government measures are only minimally disruptive
… junked that practice by greenlighting restrictive practices and intentionally stoking fear
… overlaid enormous economic, social, educational and health harms on top of those caused by the virus
… Non-Covid excess deaths
… from lockdowns, the shutdown of non-Covid medical care, and societal panic
… nearly 100,000 between April 2020 and at least the end of 2021
… as much as 100 times the number of Covid deaths the lockdowns prevented
… The best measure of health performance during the pandemic is all-cause excess mortality
… On this measure Sweden … outperformed nearly every country in the world
… the U.S. “would have had 1.60 million fewer deaths if it had the performance of Sweden” [ PNAS ]
… In America, states that imposed prolonged lockdowns had no better health outcomes
… measured by all-cause excess mortality
than those that stayed open
… generated a fear of entering medical facilities
… encouraging the false belief that hospitals were too busy to treat people who needed care
… 2020, nearly half of the nation’s some 650,000 chemotherapy patients didn’t get treatment
… 85% of living organ transplants weren’t completed
… 35.6% fewer calls for cardiac emergencies after March 10, 2020, compared with the year prior
… as many as 49 million Americans were out of work in May 2020
… the lockdown unemployment shock is projected to result in 840,000 to 1.22 million excess deaths
over the next 15 to 20 years
… Perhaps the worst policy error was prolonged school closings
… is already showing up in reduced standardized test scores
… will affect earnings for decades
… school closings had no offsetting public-health benefits
… isolation led to massive increases in psychiatric illness
… selfharm
… obesity and substance abuse
… Healthy children were always at vanishingly small risk from Covid
… and nearly all of them were infected at some point anyway, according to CDC data
… Americans have lost faith in public-health institutions
… Congress and the states should rewrite their statutes regarding public-health emergencies
… They should publish transcripts of their formal discussions on digital forums for public consumption
… The U.S. should halt all binding agreements with the WHO
… these institutions must acknowledge that lockdowns, school closings and mandates were egregious errors that won’t be repeated
… Until they do, the American people should continue to withhold their trust